Intensive crackdown on country of origin labeling for delivery apps in Seoul

Published 2024년 6월 11일

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The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service and the National Rural Development Administration are conducting an intensive crackdown on country of origin labeling violations by delivery apps in the Seoul area. This follows a recent crackdown in March that revealed 85.9% of the 78 companies found to be non-compliant were delivery apps. The crackdown will focus on companies mislabeling food as domestic when it contains foreign ingredients, mixing foreign and domestic ingredients, misrepresenting the country of origin of raw materials, and failing to indicate the country of origin in restaurants. Companies found to be non-compliant with the 'Country of Origin Labeling Act' could face criminal punishment or fines.

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The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service announced on the 11th that it will conduct an intensive crackdown on country of origin labeling for delivery applications (apps) in the Seoul area from the 24th to the 28th. As a result of the regular mail order crackdown conducted in March, among the 78 companies caught for lying or failing to indicate the country of origin, delivery apps accounted for 67, or 85.9%. For this reason, there are many calls for urgent improvement in country of origin labeling in delivery apps. The National Rural Development Administration plans to mobilize 350 cyber monitoring agents nationwide to conduct preliminary monitoring in each district in Seoul from the 17th to the 24th, and then conduct on-site crackdowns on companies suspected of violating the law from the 24th to the 28th. The main crackdowns are ▲ the act of labeling the country of origin as domestic while cooking with foreign ingredients ▲ the act of mixing foreign and ...

Source: Nongmin